System Information and Metrics

ServBay provides two types of valuable data: System Info and System Metrics. These describe the hardware and current load of the machine running ServBay. Exposed to AI tools via the ServBay MCP, these insights help AI systems sense the actual hardware conditions when managing the local environment, providing recommendations, or performing operations.

Use Cases

• Enable AI Hardware Awareness — AI tools can make more informed decisions tailored to your system’s reality by reading system information and metrics before choosing models to run, determining if another service can be started, or diagnosing performance bottlenecks.
• Quick Diagnostics — Quickly spot issues like slowdowns, memory pressure, or low disk space by correlating service status with live metrics.

System Info

System Info provides a relatively static description of the machine, including:

• Platform — Operating system type (macOS / Windows).
• OS Version — Operating system version.
• App Version — Current ServBay version.
• CPU — Architecture (e.g., arm64 / x86_64) and core count.
• Memory — Total physical memory.

System Metrics

System Metrics reflect real-time resource usage, including:

• CPU — Overall usage, plus breakdowns by user, system, and idle time; includes optional historical samples for trend analysis.
• Memory — Total, used, available memory, memory pressure, as well as details like ServBay’s own usage, wired, and compressed memory.
• Storage — Total disk space, used, available, and usage rate.
• Network (Optional) — Local IP address, and real-time upload/download speeds.

How to Use

System Info and Metrics are provided via ServBay MCP. Once you complete the MCP integration, you can ask the AI questions like:

• "How much memory and how many CPU cores does this machine have? What's being used right now?"
• "How much disk space is available?"
• "Is there high memory pressure? Is it suitable to run another large model?"

The AI will access the relevant data from ServBay MCP to answer your queries.

Privacy Boundaries

System Info and Metrics only describe hardware and load, and do not include any personally identifiable or sensitive details, such as machine serial numbers, usernames, account identifiers, or process information.

Prerequisites

• ServBay (for macOS or Windows) should be installed and running.
• To allow the AI to read the system info, ensure ServBay MCP integration is completed.

Summary

System information and real-time metrics make your local environment managed by ServBay “AI-aware”. With these capabilities, AI tools gain a clear picture of your machine's hardware and resource load, leading to smarter model selection, service launches, or performance troubleshooting. This is a core part of the ServBay MCP feature set.